On my gaming rig, I did try to do some gaming with it via Steam and it was a little bit of a disaster.

Steam through wine likes to lock the audio device ,from what I remember, so you won't get sound if you launch it from within Steam. Just launch whatever app from the terminal - 'wine [whatever app]' while steam is online.

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But hey, WINE and others like it still aren't up to par on DX9 so that's pretty disappointing.

I'll think about your statement while I play Mass Effect 2,and other game/application you care to mention except Crysis(bah!), on Linux. Take a look at the AppDatabase sometime.